Getting Old Quotes - Page 16

• I do sometimes worry about getting older and the fact that I am not going to be a model for ever...[But] The fact that Helen Mirren can look so great in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women.

  Kelly Brook

  Thinking, Worry, Getting Older

  "Kelly Brook talks bikinis, bodies and reckons having 'boob jobs and botox is really sad'" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

  Gwen Stefani

  Self, Getting Older, Fabulous

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• Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

  Randy Johnson

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Wine, Simple, Glasses

  "Locations: A Wine Life Hack" by Tara Fass, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2016.

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• Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

  Rick Reilly

  Player, Nfl, Scotch

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• One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Mean, Getting Older, Use

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• You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

  David Brenner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Memories, Holiday

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• At 50 you now have realized
  ?Getting old isn't fair?
  And that it's hard to make a comeback
  ?When you haven't gone anywhere

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Age, Gone

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• Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

  Robert Benton

  Twilight, Color, Murder Mysteries

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Survival, Unimportant

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• Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

  Howie Mandel

  Running, Kids, Getting Older

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• It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

  Jonathan Evison

  Easy, Clear, Old You

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• One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

  Maurice Sendak

  Creative, Grace, Noses

  "Interview: Why Is Maurice Sendak So Incredibly Angry?". Interview with Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting Magazine (October 1993); later quoted in Leonard S. Marcus "Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book" (p. 181), 2002.

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• You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

  Meryl Streep

  People, Getting Older, Each Day

  "Interview: Meryl Streep Up Close". Interview with Martyn Palmer, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Age, Aging, Problem

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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• I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Retirement, Want, Noise

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• I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Getting Older, Age, Goes On

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• There are no other factors that cause me stress when I get inside the Octagon. I guess that's an advantage of getting older.

  Mark Hunt

  Stress, Mma, Getting Older

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• We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

  Ian Mckellen

  Men, Getting Older, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.

  David Hare

  Getting Older, Vitality, Walks

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.

  Anjelica Huston

  Decision, Criticism, Getting Older

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

  George Clooney

  Getting Older, Concerned

  "The Men Who Stare At Goats - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.

  Orson Scott Card

  Growing Up, Writing, House

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• Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Character, Cat, White

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